It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.- Charles Kingsley

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is thatthey can grow separately without growing apart.- Elisabeth Foley

There is a magnet in your heartthat will attract true friends.That magnet is unselfishness,thinking of others first;when you learn to live for others,they will live for you.- Paramahansa Yogananda

This life is what you make it.Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,it's a universal truth.But the good part is,you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.But just remember, some come, some go.The ones that stay with you through everything -they're your true best friends.Don't let go of them.Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.- Marilyn Monroe

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemyis the quintessence of true religion.The other is mere business.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality.It's how true friends talk.- Peggy Noonan

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.- William Hazlitt

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals.Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.- Dick Van Patten

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religionthan for any other single reason.That, my friends, that is true perversion.- Harvey Milk

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions,not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.- George Washington

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.- Brian Celio

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America'sfriends from her enemies,and recognizes the true threats that we face.- Sarah Palin

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion,a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends,but in the worth and choice.- Ben Jonson

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.- Homer

"Mother Teresa Prayer"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;... Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse youof selfish, ulterior motives;... Be kind anyway.If you are successful, you will win somefalse friends and some true enemies;... Succeed anyway.If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;... Be honest and frank anyway.What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;... Build anyway.If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;... Be happy anyway.The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;... Do good anyway.Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;... Give the world the best you've got anyway.You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;It was never between you and them anyway.We can do no great things - only small things with great love.- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,who kept a copy of this prayer onthe wall of her Calcutta orphanage,this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

I need more friends.It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.- Miley Cyrus

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends.I can't hide anything from them.- Ian Somerhalder

Future.That period of time in which our affairs prosper,our friends are true and our happiness is assured.- Ambrose Bierce

It is not our place to know the mind of God.Spirit knows what is best in the long run -best for each of us individually,and best for humanity as a whole.This is often very difficult to acceptwhen we see war and disease in the worldand experience physical and emotional sufferingin ourselves, our family, and our friends.I consider this belief in God's infinite powerand ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no true friends in politics.We are all sharks circling, and waiting,for traces of blood to appear in the water.- Alan Clark

The fact is that more people have been slaughteredin the name of religion than for any other single reason.That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.- Harvey Milk

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.I think that applies to their chosen profession,friends and relationships.It goes for your health too.If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everythingshould work out pretty well.- Bebe Neuwirth

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognizedand to be able to sign autographs.But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining.If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.- Christina Aguilera

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for,like true friends, they will never fail us -never cease to instruct -never cloy.- Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils.Strive to have friends, for life without friends islike life on a desert island...to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune;to keep him is a blessing.- Baltasar Gracian

Every story was being made up.My true friends weren't the ones speaking.It was people who never knew me, making up stories.Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.- Marla Maples

I would love to have seen a male-female relationshipthat had nothing to do with falling in love,I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true!- that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.- Nana Visitor

Friends can help each other.A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself -and especially to feel.Or, not feel.Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.- Jim Morrison

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really thinkit's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part.So we're developing something.- Rachel True

We are a country that has many friends,many allies, when we operate in the world,we operate with friends and allies that's been truefor decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.- Douglas Feith

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on.Touring gets really lonely.I guess I have friends around me but when you're payingthem can they ever really be true friends?- Kelly Osbourne

In poverty and other misfortunes of life,true friends are a sure refuge.The young they keep out of mischief;to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness,and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.- Aristotle

A true friend is someone whothinks that you are a good eggeven though he knows thatyou are slightly cracked.- Bernard Meltzer

A true friend is the one whowalks in when others walk out.- Walter Winchell

A true friend never gets in your wayunless you happen to be going down.- Arnold H. Glasgow

A true friend sees the good in everything,and brings out the best in the worst of things.- Sasha Azevedo

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

However rare true love may be,it is less so than true friendship.- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.- George Washington

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversitybefore it is entitled to the appellation.- George Washington

Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The Philosopher of Happiness" - is the author of 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love, co-author of Simply An Inspired Life, speaker, personal coach, and creator of the popular Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote free email.